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Monday, 25 March 2013

Fans of Stephen King's The Shining rejoice! The sequel to the chilling story, Doctor Sleep - which looks at where now middle-aged Danny Torrance's life has ended up - is out this September. Check out the synopsis and interactive new cover below...

King says he wanted to know
what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of THE
SHINING, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The
instantly riveting, stand-alone novel, DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story
of the now middle-aged Dan.

On highways across
America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of
sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and
devoted to their comfortable Recreational Vehicles. But they live off
the ‘steam’ that children with the ‘shining’ produce when they are
slowly tortured to death.

Following a childhood
haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, Dan
Torrance has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's
legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles into a
job at a nursing home in rural New Hampshire where his remnant ‘shining’
power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a
prescient cat, Dan becomes ‘Doctor Sleep.’

Then Dan meets the
evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest
shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a
battle for Abra’s soul and survival...

Publication of the hardcover, eBook and digital download will be September 24, 2013.